Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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> Memory units are kB, MB, GB. The factor is 1024.
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Then shouldn't the factor be 1000? If the factor is 1024, then the units
should be KiB, MiB, GiB per IEEE 1541
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541) and others.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, but the general approach with -hackers
seems to be towards compliance where practical.
Regards,
Paul Bort